. The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century. ed. ARDTORNISH CASTLE, Argyllshire. This castle occupies an important place in Scotts Lord of the Isles,and the account given of the buildings is made to correspond with theimposing character of the court of that powerful chief described as held ARDTORNISH CASTLE — 123 — SECOND PERIOD therein. But there is nothing in the existing remains to lead one tobelieve that Ardtornish was ever more than a large keep of the quadri-lateral style of the fourteenth century. The ruins are now reduced to thewa
. The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century. ed. ARDTORNISH CASTLE, Argyllshire. This castle occupies an important place in Scotts Lord of the Isles,and the account given of the buildings is made to correspond with theimposing character of the court of that powerful chief described as held ARDTORNISH CASTLE — 123 — SECOND PERIOD therein. But there is nothing in the existing remains to lead one tobelieve that Ardtornish was ever more than a large keep of the quadri-lateral style of the fourteenth century. The ruins are now reduced to thewall of the basement, which is 9 or 10 feet in thickness, not above 15 feetin height, and is absolutely without any other architectural fragment stands on the top of a basaltic headland on the nortliernside of the Sound of Mull and a few miles from its eastern end (Fig. 72).The entrance to the Sound is thus guarded by Duart Castle on the southor Mull coast, and by Ardtornish Castle on the northern or Morven side,and they both form prominent objects in the view (Fig. 73). The keep. Fig. 72.—Ardtornish Castle, from the West. of Ardtornish has doubtless closely resembled that of Duart, but it doesnot appear to have ever been attached to a wall of enceinte like thelatter. Ardtornish was the castle of the first Lord of the Isles, and wasprobably built by him in the fourteenth century. He died there in 1380,and was buried with great splendour at lona. In 1461 the Earl of Ross(who was also Lord of the Isles) assumed the position of an independentprince, and entered into negotiations with Edward iv. of England for anattack upon Scotland. It was at this castle of Ardtornish that theformer called a council of his chiefs, when he granted a commission likea sovereign ruler to two of his kinsmen to confer with the deputies ofKing Edward. SECOND PERIOD — 124 ARDTORNISH CASTLE
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